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feel

  [feel] verb, felt, feel⋅ing, noun
Use Feel in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to perceive or examine by touch.
2. to have a sensation of (something), other than by sight, hearing, taste, or smell: to feel a toothache.
3. to find or pursue (one's way) by touching, groping, or cautious moves.
4. to be or become conscious of.
5. to be emotionally affected by: to feel one's disgrace keenly.
6. to experience the effects of: The whole region felt the storm.
7. to have a particular sensation or impression of (often used reflexively and usually fol. by an adjunct or complement): to feel oneself slighted.
8. to have a general or thorough conviction of; think; believe: I feel he's guilty.
–verb (used without object)
9. to have perception by touch or by any nerves of sensation other than those of sight, hearing, taste, and smell.
10. to make examination by touch; grope.
11. to perceive a state of mind or a condition of body: to feel happy; to feel well.
12. to have a sensation of being: to feel warm.
13. to make itself perceived or apparent; seem: How does it feel to be rich?
–noun
14. a quality of an object that is perceived by feeling or touching: the soft feel of cotton.
15. a sensation of something felt; a vague mental impression or feeling: a feel of winter; a feel of sadness in the air.
16. the sense of touch: soft to the feel.
17. native ability or acquired sensitivity: to have a feel for what is right.
18. Informal. an act or instance of touching with the hand or fingers.
19. Slang: Vulgar. an act or instance of feeling up.
—Verb phrases
20. feel for,
a. to feel sympathy for or compassion toward; empathize with: I know you're disappointed and upset, and I feel for you.
b. Southeastern Pennsylvania and Maryland. to have a liking or desire for: If you feel for more pie, just help yourself.
21. feel out, to attempt to ascertain (the nature of a situation, someone's attitude, etc.) by indirect or subtle means: Why not feel out the other neighbors' opinions before you make a complaint.
22. feel up, Slang: Vulgar. to fondle or touch (someone) in a sexual manner.
23. feel up to, Informal. to feel or be able to; be capable of: He didn't feel up to going to the theater so soon after his recent illness.
—Idioms
24. cop a feel, Slang: Vulgar. to touch another person's body sexually, often in a quick and surreptitious way.
25. feel like, Informal. to have a desire for; be favorably disposed to: I don't feel like going out tonight. Do you feel like a movie?
26. feel like oneself, to be in one's usual frame of mind or state of health: She hasn't been feeling like herself since the accident. Also, feel oneself.
27. feel no pain. pain (def. 5).
Origin:
bef. 900; ME felen, OE fēlan; c. OS fōlian, G fühlen; akin to ON falma to grope. See fumble
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feel   (fēl)   
v.   felt (fělt), feel·ing, feels

v.   tr.
    1. To perceive through the sense of touch: feel the velvety smoothness of a peach.
    2. To perceive as a physical sensation: feel a sharp pain; feel the cold.
    3. To touch.
    4. To examine by touching. See Synonyms at touch.
    5. To undergo the experience of: felt my interest rising; felt great joy.
    6. To be aware of; sense: felt the anger of the crowd.
    7. To be emotionally affected by: She still feels the loss of her dog.
    8. To be persuaded of (something) on the basis of intuition, emotion, or other indefinite grounds: I feel that what the informant says may well be true.
    9. To believe; think: She felt his answer to be evasive.
    1. To touch.
    2. To examine by touching. See Synonyms at touch.
    3. To undergo the experience of: felt my interest rising; felt great joy.
    4. To be aware of; sense: felt the anger of the crowd.
    5. To be emotionally affected by: She still feels the loss of her dog.
    6. To be persuaded of (something) on the basis of intuition, emotion, or other indefinite grounds: I feel that what the informant says may well be true.
    7. To believe; think: She felt his answer to be evasive.
  3. To test or explore with caution: feel one's way in a new job.
    1. To undergo the experience of: felt my interest rising; felt great joy.
    2. To be aware of; sense: felt the anger of the crowd.
    3. To be emotionally affected by: She still feels the loss of her dog.
    4. To be persuaded of (something) on the basis of intuition, emotion, or other indefinite grounds: I feel that what the informant says may well be true.
    5. To believe; think: She felt his answer to be evasive.
    1. To be persuaded of (something) on the basis of intuition, emotion, or other indefinite grounds: I feel that what the informant says may well be true.
    2. To believe; think: She felt his answer to be evasive.
v.   intr.
  1. To experience sensations of touch.
    1. To produce a particular sensation, especially through the sense of touch: The sheets felt smooth.
    2. To produce a particular impression; appear to be; seem: It feels good to be home. See Usage Note at well2.
  3. To be conscious of a specified kind or quality of physical, mental, or emotional state: felt warm and content; feels strongly about the election.
  4. To seek or explore something by the sense of touch: felt for the light switch in the dark.
  5. To have compassion or sympathy: I feel for him in his troubles.
n.  
  1. Perception by or as if by touch; sensation: a feel of autumn in the air.
  2. The sense of touch: a surface that is rough to the feel.
    1. An act or instance of touching or feeling.
    2. Vulgar An act or instance of sexual touching or fondling.
  4. The nature or quality of something as perceived by or as if by the sense of touch: "power steering that seems overassisted, eliminating road feel" (Mark Ginsburg).
  5. Overall impression or effect; atmosphere: "gives such disparate pictures . . . a crazily convincing documentary feel" (Stephen King).
  6. Intuitive awareness or natural ability: has a feel for decorating.
Phrasal Verb(s):
feel outTo try cautiously or indirectly to ascertain the viewpoint or nature of.
feel up Vulgar To touch or fondle (someone) sexually.

Idiom(s):
feel in (one's) bonesTo have an intuition of.

Idiom(s):
feel like Informal To have an inclination or desire for: felt like going for a walk.

Idiom(s):
feel like (oneself)To sense oneself as being in one's normal state of health or spirits: I just don't feel like myself today.

Idiom(s):
feel (one's) oats
  1. To be energetic and playful.
  2. To act in a self-important manner.

[Middle English felen, from Old English fēlan; see pāl- in Indo-European roots.]
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Feel

Feel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Felt; p. pr. & vb. n. Feeling.] [AS. f?lan; akin to OS. gif?lian to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. f["u]hlen, Icel. f[=a]lma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm paim of the hand, L. palma. Cf. Fumble, Palm.]

1. To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs.

Who feel Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel. --Creecn.

2. To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out.

Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son. --Gen. xxvii. 21.

He hath this to feel my affection to your honor. --Shak.

3. To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.

Teach me to feel another's woe. --Pope.

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing. --Eccl. viii. 5.

He best can paint them who shall feel them most. --Pope.

Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt. --Byron.

4. To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of.

For then, and not till then, he felt himself. --Shak.

5. To perceive; to observe. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To feel the helm (Naut.), to obey it.

Feel

Feel\, v. i. 1. To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body.

2. To have the sensibilities moved or affected.

[She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron. --Burke.

And mine as man, who feel for all mankind. --Pope.

3. To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; -- followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded.

I then did feel full sick. --Shak.

4. To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving.

Garlands . . . which I feel I am not worthy yet to wear. --Shak.

5. To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation.

Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth. --Dryden.

To feel after, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark. "If haply they might feel after him, and find him." --Acts xvii. 27.

To feel of, to examine by touching.

Feel

Feel\, n. 1. Feeling; perception. [R.]

To intercept and have a more kindly feel of its genial warmth. --Hazlitt.

2. A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel.

The difference between these two tumors will be distinguished by the feel. --S. Sharp.
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Language Translation for : Feel
Spanish: sentir,
German: fühlen,
Japanese: 感じる
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feel  (v.)
O.E. felan "to touch," from Gmc. *folijanan (cf. Du. voelen, Ger. fühlen "to feel," O.N. falma "to grope"), from PIE base *(s)pol-/*(s)pal- "to strike softly" (cf. Gk. psallein "to pluck (the harp)," L. palpare "to touch softly, stroke," palpitare "to move quickly"). The sense in O.E. was "to perceive through senses which are not referred to any special organ." Sense of "be conscious of a sensation or emotion" developed by c.1290; that of "to have sympathy or compassion" is from 1605; feeling (n.) "emotion" is first recorded 1369; feelings "tender or sensitive side of one's nature" is 1771. Noun sense of "sexual grope" is from 1932; from verbal phrase to feel (someone) up (1930).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: 1feel
Pronunciation: 'fE(&)l
Function: verb
Inflected Form: felt /'felt/; feel·ing
transitivesenses
1 : to handle or touch in order to examine, test, or explore some quality <felt the compress to see if it was wet>
2 : to perceive by aphysical sensation coming from discrete end organs (as of the skin or muscles) feel intransitive senses
1 : to receive or be able to receive a tactile sensation
2 : to search for something by using the sense of touch

Main Entry: 2feel
Function: noun
1 : the sense of touch
2 : SENSATION, FEELING
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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feel (fēl)
v. felt (fělt), feel·ing, feels

  1. To perceive through the sense of touch.
  2. To perceive as a physical sensation, as of pain.
  3. To be conscious of a particular physical, mental, or emotional state.

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Feel
(Free and Eventually Eulisp) An initial implementation of an EuLisp interpreter by Pete Broadbery . Version 0.75 features an integrated object system, modules, parallelism, interfaces to PVM library, TCP/IP sockets, futures, Linda and CSP. Portable to most Unix systems. Can use shared memory and threads if available.
(ftp://ftp.bath.ac.uk/pub/eulisp/).
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feel

In addition to the idioms beginning with feel, also see (feel) at home; cop a feel; get the feel of; (feel) put upon. Also see feelings.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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